From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Seik Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: watching files Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:10:00 +0100 Organization: privat Message-ID: <4380d95a$0$24985$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> References: <87ek5cagj2.wl@nospam.anselm.chemie.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132518141 13762 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2005 20:22:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 20 21:22:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Edvg4-0004cU-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:20:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Edvg3-0000ow-Ep for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:20:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!newsfeed.cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!news.germany.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.freenet.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.9.0 Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 07e544b8.news.freenet.de Original-X-Trace: DXC=2l:II?8@dIj@a[KY[0_n>5mi:g Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freenet.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135602 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31200 Archived-At: Anselm Helbig wrote: Hallo Anselm, Thank You for your help, it seems that emacs is missing an important feature. When you switch on auto-revert-mode emacs will overwrite unchanged buffers without notice, and does nothing with changed buffers when the correspondig file changes. An interactive mode seems to be missing :-( viele Grüße Andreas >> I would like to habe emacs check, when ever i reopen a buffer, if the >> correspondig file on disk has changed meanwile. Emacs shold ask me, if i >> want to relode the newer version. >> I thik this feater existsts, but i can't find the switch. > > hallo andreas, > > emacs checks if there have been changes to the file you are editing > when you try to save it. that's what rgb meant. > > there's a minor mode you can active, `auto-revert-mode', which checks > in certain intervals if the file you are editing changed and then > loads the new version. i'm not sure if it asks you when there is a > conflict, i remember that i lost some changes i did when i was still > using it. at least there were problems when you're working on a remote > server which is a little out of sync with your system clock (a few > seconds may be trouble enough if you save often). > > to try it for all buffers now, drop this into your .emacs: > > (global-auto-revert-mode 1) > > grüße, > > anselm